Liver imaging at St. Francis Hospital
34515 Ninth Avenue South, Federal Way, WA · Vmfh · · NPI 1093713091
$803.27
Cash price Discounted cash price What a hospital charges a self-pay patient who pays directly, without going through insurance — usually well below the gross charge. Example: A CT scan has a $3,200 gross charge but an $850 discounted cash price. Ask for it by name when scheduling — hospitals don't always advertise it up front.
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What you pay up front if you don't use insurance.
$2,559.61
Gross charge Gross charge (chargemaster price) The hospital's full, undiscounted list price — pulled from its internal "chargemaster" price list. Almost no one actually pays this. Example: A chest X-ray has a gross charge of $1,450. The same hospital's discounted cash price for the same X-ray is $180 — the gross charge mostly anchors negotiations, not what patients pay.
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The hospital's undiscounted list price — almost no one pays this.
$599.12 with SoundPath vs $2,686.06 with Cigna — same scan, same building. Share
Negotiated rates by payer
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →
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Negotiated rate
The price a specific insurance plan agreed to pay the hospital for a service — it varies by insurer, and even by plan within the same insurer.
Example: The same knee MRI has a negotiated rate of $904 with one insurer's PPO plan and $1,509 with another's — identical hospital, identical scan.
Full explanation →Payer ?Payer The insurance company footing the bill — Aetna, UnitedHealthcare, Medicare, and so on. Example: "Blue Cross Blue Shield" is the payer. Its negotiated rate for an MRI might be $904, while a different payer's negotiated rate for the same scan is $1,509. Full explanation → |
Plan ?Plan The specific product an insurer sells — e.g. "Blue Cross PPO 500" — which sets your deductible, coinsurance and negotiated rates. Example: Two people both insured by Aetna can owe very different amounts for the same MRI: $50 with an HMO plan's flat copay, or the full $1,200 toward a high-deductible PPO plan's unmet deductible. Full explanation → |
Negotiated rate | vs. cash |
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| SoundPath | Medicare|All Plans | $599.12 | ↓ -25% |
| Kaiser | Medicare|All Plans | $599.12 | ↓ -25% |
| Optum | Medicare|All Plans | $605.11 | ↓ -25% |
| Aetna | Medicare|All Plans | $617.09 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Regence | Medicare|All Plans | $617.09 | ↓ -23% |
| BCBS - Premera | Medicare|All Plans | $617.09 | ↓ -23% |
| Humana | Medicare|All Plans | $641.06 | ↓ -20% |
| United | Medicare|All Plans | $647.05 | ↓ -19% |
| Molina | Medicare|All Plans | $647.05 | ↓ -19% |
| Amerigroup | Medicare|All Plans | $653.04 | ↓ -19% |
| CHPW | Medicare|All Plans | $688.99 | ↓ -14% |
| Seattle Medical Group | Medicare|All Plans | $688.99 | ↓ -14% |
| Sound Family Medicine | Commercial|All Plans | $1,138.33 | ↑ +42% |
| Molina | Commercial|Marketplace Exchange | $1,150.31 | ↑ +43% |
| Coordinated Care | Commercial|Ambetter Exchange | $1,186.26 | ↑ +48% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|LifeWise Primary Exchange | $1,251.21 | ↑ +56% |
| Uniform Medical Plan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,335.83 | ↑ +66% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|HMO | $1,372.69 | ↑ +71% |
| Kaiser | Commercial|PPO | $1,510.07 | ↑ +88% |
| First Choice | Commercial|All Plans | $1,519.61 | ↑ +89% |
| BCBS - Regence | Commercial|All Plans | $1,531.73 | ↑ +91% |
| BCBS - Premera | Commercial|All Other Plans | $1,808.75 | ↑ +125% |
| Aetna | Commercial|Rental | $1,842.92 | ↑ +129% |
| MultiPlan | Commercial|All Plans | $1,919.71 | ↑ +139% |
| United | Commercial|Navigate | $1,925.16 | ↑ +140% |
| United | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,026.51 | ↑ +152% |
| United | Commercial|Cascade Care | $2,026.51 | ↑ +152% |
| Aetna | Commercial|AWH | $2,281.77 | ↑ +184% |
| Aetna | Commercial|All Other Plans | $2,684.44 | ↑ +234% |
| Cigna | Commercial|All Plans | $2,686.06 | ↑ +234% |
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Liver imaging at other Washington hospitals
| Hospital | City | Cash price | Negotiated range |
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| Swedish Medical Center - First Hill Campus | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $628.75 – $5,979.29 |
| Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center and Children's Hospital | Spokane | $7,791.00 | $605.06 – $4,579.88 |
| Swedish Medical Center Cherry Hill | Seattle | $4,099.68 | $628.75 – $5,788.46 |
| Swedish Issaquah | Issaquah | $4,099.68 | $630.52 – $5,979.29 |
| Central Medical Center | Seattle | $1,848.00 | $539.00 – $539.00 |
| Providence Mount Carmel Hospital | Colville | $585.90 | not published |
| Providence St Mary Medical Center | Walla Walla | $903.00 | $478.94 – $1,119.35 |
| Providence Holy Family Hospital | Spokane | $4,571.00 | $605.06 – $1,851.21 |